· Public charity
United Way of Brown County
To raise and accept donations for charitable purposes, distribute funds to charitable organizations in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $216,231 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,651 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,420 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $216,231 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
To be our members' lifelong financial partner by truly understanding their stories and delivering smart solutions.
The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…
Resource & referral child care
Central County United Way connects people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community characterized by productive youth programs, senior services, healthy people and the community in which we live.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Building a stronger community by uniting people and resources to solve problems and improve lives.
To help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
Western illinois regional council's mission is to partner with people and communities to improve lives and neighborhoods.
To solicit, collect, and otherwise raise money from the citizens of washington, marion, jefferson, franklin, hamilton, wayne, white, edwards, and wabash counties in southern illinois for charitable, philanthropic, and benevolent purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of West Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is West Central Illinois Health Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE TWO RIVERS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds West Central Illinois Health Corporation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Brown County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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